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Recent Examples of minedMica estimated that explosives are used nine out of ten times for anything that’s mined.—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 2 Sep. 2025 Because of their strategic importance, the bridges were mined – so that the Russian military had the option of blowing them up in case of a sudden Ukrainian advance.—Svitlana Vlasova, CNN Money, 29 Aug. 2025 Where is the willing buyer who will pay millions of dollars or anything at all to save the Ranch Springs property from being mined?—Peter J Reilly, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025 In the early 2000s, a vein of innovation was being mined by artists twisting folk traditions into new shapes (Sufjan Stevens’s whimsical orchestration, Animal Collective’s ghostly harmonizing, Joanna Newsom’s harp epics).—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 29 Aug. 2025 Most blockchain analysts estimate that Nakamoto mined about 1 million Bitcoin between 2009 and 2010.—Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 The site hasn't been commercially mined since.—Tommy Trenchard, NPR, 23 Aug. 2025 Shoppers should be free to thump a melon without being mined for data.—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025 Because the United States lacks smelting capacity, copper mined at Resolution would likely be refined for manufacture in Chinese facilities.—Debra Utacia Krol, AZCentral.com, 19 Aug. 2025
Tonges, who before Sunday’s game had never caught a regular-season pass, attacked the ball and gave San Francisco the lead.
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Michael-Shawn Dugar,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
The occurrences grew more aggressive over time, with the Smurls' 75-pound German shepherd getting slammed into a wall and Jack getting attacked while praying.
De’Andre Johnson ambushed and choked the agent in a DCS office, livestreaming the attack on Facebook.
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Miguel Torres,
AZCentral.com,
6 Sep. 2025
The season will detail 10 different cases, including a Las Vegas journalist ambushed outside his residence, a body dumped in a NYC tunnel, and a mission to discover the identity of a victim found in the East River.
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